Summerlander wrote:That's okay, Hagart, because the beauty is that we are exposed to intelligent people like deschainXIX who introduce us to new words and concepts which help to expand and in turn influence us to better express our own ideas confidently.

You're too flattering. I'm not that smart. Au contraire, Hagart and I are the lucky ones, for being exposed to you.

As I have translucently opined countless times, I haven't the slightest idea how to define "intelligence" (I don't pretend to have knowledge of neurology and psychology that I don't), so anyone who thinks that I am legitimately calling myself "stupid," calling Summerlander "intelligent," and indirectly calling Hagart "stupid" as well, rather than simply and innocently returning a gracious compliment to a friend, is remarkably uninformed.

As Hagart (and everyone else who pays attention) knows, I hold him in my mind with the utmost respect, and just in the last few pages I've reminisced aloud about his comedic genius and markedly novel and lucid way of thinking, always charmingly and amiably delivered. What a crude, mind-boggling little comment that was. PKJacker seems to have been watching this thread with a resolute silence, hopping in only now to suddenly vomit his singular and antagonizing contribution whose purpose seems only to stir up contention... I am genuinely bemused.

Are you actually offended right now, Hagart? I just want to hear that from you, rather than you saying I am somehow circle jerking...

"For shock value." All right, fine. But why would you make such a hysteric and cheap whimper of a crude insult simply for being excluded from a friendly encounter between Summerlander and myself? Even when I awarded you, too, a compliment in that same exact post:

"What a perfect little aphorism to describe the nature of Megaman and why we're trying to beat it." Never have you bestowed anything I've written with such acclaim. Yet instead you revert to saying Summerlander and I are circle jerking.

So! The thread will now undoubtedly fall into sullen silence because PKJacker accused myself of insulting Hagart's intelligence, and then Hagart not only affirmed this but said Summerlander and I were circle-jerking.

So I think everyone will agree that it is not my responsibility to catalyze the resumption of conversation, seeing as it was you two who derailed what was a nice little run of dialogue in the first place.

"Empty cognizance of one taste, suffused with knowing, is your unmistaken nature, the uncontrived original state. when not altering what is, allow it to be as it is, and the awakened state is right now spontaneously present."